When some Internet users move from one service provider to another, they do
not take their email address along with them. Users who lost their email
accounts may not notify you of their loss. Internet users may choose to
subscribe to your service with a phony email address so that they have access
to a free download or a free offer that you may be offering online. Hence, you
are left with dead email addresses.
Avoid sending newsletters to bad addresses. If you ultimately decide to use
a commercial service to manage your list and send your newsletters, you will
usually pay either by the number of sent messages or by the size of your list.
If you handle the newsletter mailing yourself, then it becomes a time issue.
In other case, you will have to deal with bounced
messages.
List hygiene plays a role in the delivery race. It is important to maintain
a clean mailing list and remove bounced/undeliverable emails because a lot of
ISP mail servers have been known to block a sender's email domain for repeated
sending messages to non-existing email addresses.
The average email address lifespan is approximately three years. What happens
to old, abandoned addresses? Rather than kill them, many ISPs recycle them to
new users or add them to filters as "spamtrap" addresses. (A spamtrap is an
email address used by a filtering service to identify spam. Many are created
by filtering services and placed in public domains, such as chat rooms and
message boards.) Either way, email sent to a spamtrap doesn't bounce. It's
received by someone and considered spam, or sent straight into a blackhole
(deleted), along with all the rest of your messages to that ISP's users.
Thought cleaning your list wasn't high priority? It's mandatory.
AEV
is designed for system administrators, webmasters, programmers as well as for
those advanced users who have their own mailing lists and would like to keep
them up-to-date.
There is no need to disturb your clients and friends anymore to check if their
e-mail addresses are still valid. AEV connects directly to their SMTP server
and checks it for you. Nothing is sent to the recipient. AEV works in your
system tray.
AEV verifies every e-mail address from a specified mailing list, allowing
you to determine up to 80% of "dead" mail addresses. For some addresses, such
as AOL, Yahoo, and other non-SMTP mail, you can't verify whether the address
is good or not. You won't know definitively until some bounce. The mail server
won't cooperate, so you can set the Rules in Advanced Email Verifier either to
assume they're all good or they're all bad in order not to waste time for
checking such email addresses. The screen capture above shows the kinds of
messages you're likely to see when the verification is complete. Please, note
that the tool is fast, but not instantaneous. The speed depends on the size of
your list, your connection, and the speed of the Web. If your list is really
big, you may run it at night.
AEV
supports import from Windows Address Book (.WAB) as well as through ODBC SQL
to allow to get e-mail addresses from external sources.
When you've completed the verification using a licensed copy, you can
export good email addresses to Paradox, DBase, Excel, Text (.CSV), HTML, Word,
Lotus 1-2-3, QuattroPro or MS Access database files. This will be the list you
use for your newsletter.
Additionally, verifying the addresses using a tool isn't enough. Unless
your addresses came from a customer database, you probably want to remove all
administrative addresses such as orders@*, support@*, listserv@* to which you
don't want the newsletter goes. There are more, but that's a good start. If
you don't remove these, then you'll receive automated replies from a lot of
places. Now to remove such email addresses you can use a powerful
Search/Filter Engine from Advanced Email Verifier.
AEV helps to decrease Internet traffic, because you can clean your mailing
list beforehand, keeping you from sending undeliverable messages that cause a
ping-pong of useless messages between SMTP servers. In addition to saving your
Internet resources, AEV helps you to save money.
Advanced Email Verifier has the following features:
 | Instant verifying of bad email addresses and invalid domains.
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| Import email lists from .CSV and .TXT files. |
| Support of different mailing list formats |
| Import email addresses from external sources through ODBC SQL.
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| Export email addresses verifying results through ODBC SQL (Only
Registered version). |
| Ability to export email addresses to Paradox, DBase, Excel, Text (.CSV),
HTML, Word, SYLK, Lotus 1-2-3, QuattroPro, SQL script, XML, MS Access
database files |
| Import e-mail addresses from Windows Address Book (.WAB).
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| Synchronize with Windows Address Book (Only Registered version).
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| Ability to work with large mailing list. Please note although the
program can work with huge maillists, it is not recommended to import more
than 100 000 emails to the database because it will take much time for
importing. The optimum is approximately 50 000 emails in the database.
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| Safe recovery - If your computer hangs in the middle of any operation,
Advanced E-Mail Verifier restores the data. |
| Creates a detailed log for every operation. |
| Fast multi-threaded engine. The speed depends generally on the user's
connection and Internet traffic. |
